Nat Colley Consulting / Vet Your Lawyer is hosted at WordPress.com. As such, we have adopted, with minor modifications, their privacy policy as our own. Your privacy is critically important to us. We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services. (For example: we don’t save comments that get submitted to our Akismet comment spam blocking service unless they were marked as false positives; in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.)
Nat Colley Consulting (“Vet Your Lawyer”) operates this website VetYourLawyer.wordpress.com. It is Vet Your Lawyer’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Vet Your Lawyer collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Vet Your Lawyer’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Vet Your Lawyer’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Vet Your Lawyer may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Vet Your Lawyer also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Vet Your Lawyer does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Vet Your Lawyer’s websites choose to interact with Vet Your Lawyer in ways that require Vet Your Lawyer to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Vet Your Lawyer gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with Vet Your Lawyer are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Vet Your Lawyer collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Vet Your Lawyer. Vet Your Lawyer does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Vet Your Lawyer may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Vet Your Lawyer may monitor the most popular pages on VetYourLawyer.WordPress.com or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Vet Your Lawyer may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Vet Your Lawyer does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Vet Your Lawyer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Vet Your Lawyer’s behalf or to provide services available at Vet Your Lawyer’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Vet Your Lawyer’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Vet Your Lawyer will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Vet Your Lawyer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Vet Your Lawyer believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Vet Your Lawyer, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Vet Your Lawyer website and have supplied your email address, Vet Your Lawyer may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Vet Your Lawyer and our products. We primarily use our blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Vet Your Lawyer takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Vet Your Lawyer uses cookies to help Vet Your Lawyer identify and track visitors, their usage of Vet Your Lawyer website, and their website access preferences. Vet Your Lawyer visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Vet Your Lawyer’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Vet Your Lawyer’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Vet Your Lawyer may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Vet Your Lawyer’s sole discretion. Vet Your Lawyer encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.